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By the end of the year George Campton built a
h~>me and general store, Mrs. Sam Ilarper ,-vas run-
nmg a boarding house with 4 rooms and a dining
area, and the ever I resent saloon was op rated by
Mr. Wil ' Oil .
he years following the founding of the town
were ve~·y dry and, with the wells running low, it
was decided LO move a few miles southward. On
January 15, 1878 the village was picked up and re-
located Lo Railroad and Market Streets, the whole
operation cornpleted by February I 5.
Almost immediately Henry M. Newhall beo-an
construction of his Southern Hotel. By Octobe~- it

Newhall Elementary School

If there had been a paper, certainly the big event
of the year would not have been President Chester
A. Arthur's establishment of the Civil Service, the
bombardment of Alexandria by British Admiral
Seymm_ir, nor the _ revolt in Austria-Hungary. No,
the m,~Jor story of '82 concerned the town's foun-
der.
lenry ~- Ne~v~1all arriv~d al hi~ sprawling ranch
from the CJLY of San Franusco to mspecL and audit
operation ·. Ilaving a horse saddled for him, Mr.
Newhall took a leisurely canter aero ·s the o-rassy
r~)lling hill . The mount stumbled , throwi~g it
ncler LO the ground. Sufferi1w serious internal in-
• • < t,
Junes, he was carried to The Southern where it was
Southern Hotel
decided LO remove him Lo San Francisco for ade-
quate medical care. From the Rancho San Fran-
w~s ready, featuring 40 rooms of splendor in the
wilderness. Managing the establishment was Mr. cisco Lo the Lown of San Francisco on the bay he
was taken. There he quietly passed away on March
J.O. Newhall (a cousin of Henry M.) and his
charmino-b wife. D.W. Fields sub-let a aTocery store 13, 1882.
. ~ b With him died an era of Indians, missions,
in the corner; there was a commodious well fur-
nished reading room; while D.W. Boynton ran a pioneers, explorer , and empire builders. 1882
"Genteel Bar", obviously a slap al Wilson's rmvcly marked the end of Spanish hope - for regaining
Saloo1~. S~me of the guests ,~ere Elias J. "Lucky" their ranchos. For better or for worse, this was a
turnimt point in hi ·tory. The future held (Trowth
Baldwm, fa med for his horses and Rancho Santa u h '
the ~stablishment ~>f new towns, change, and prog-
Anita. William Workman, "Uncle Billy" Lo his
res · into the twenueth century.
friends, was a pioneer Southern California banker.
Jeny Reynolds
Helen Hunt.Jackson spent the night of.January 22,
1882 on her way Lo the Camulos near Piru where Cum tor
Sa11la Clarita Valley
she would find a seuin<b, for her immortal novel
~ ' Historical Society
"Ran1ona."
By 1882 there were 10 homes in Newhall, includ-
ing M~-- Gi~Tord's, who had finally moved his family
out of their box-car. The Pacific Coast Oil Co. (a
predecessor of Stand~1-~-d Oil-Chevron) was building
a large warehouse, office, and residence for visitin<T
VIPs north of' the depot. Alex Menu·y was brino-in~
. . {' b b
1 n a stn ng o gushers for the corn pany ou L in Pico
Canyon.
There wa · no schoolhouse yet; that would be 5
years in the future. IL would be another 9 years be-
fore the residems felt the need for a community
church. No newspaper chronicled the daily lives of
the ~itizenry. Any news was strictly word-of-mouth
gossip.
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